Computation, Logic, Games, and Quantum Foundations. The Many Facets of Samson Abramsky Essays Dedicated to Samson Abramsky on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday /

This Festschrift volume, published in honor of Samson Abramsky, contains contributions written by some of his colleagues, former students, and friends. In celebration of the 60th birthday of Samson Abramsky, a conference was held in Oxford, UK, during May 28-30, 2010. The papers in this volume repre...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Coecke, Bob. (Editor), Ong, Luke. (Editor), Panangaden, Prakash. (Editor)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Series:Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 7860
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Online Access:https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38164-5
Table of Contents:
  • Use of a Canonical Hidden-Variable Space in Quantum Mechanics
  • Imperfect Information in Logic and Concurrent Games
  • Compositional Quantum Logic
  • The Algebra of Directed Acyclic Graphs
  • Diagrammatic Reasoning for Delay-Insensitive Asynchronous Circuits
  • Payoffs, Intensionality and Abstraction in Games
  • On the Theory of Composition in Physics
  • On the Functor 2
  • Quantum Speedup and Categorical Distributivity
  • Unifying Semantics for Concurrent Programming
  • Unfixing the Fixpoint: The Theories of the <U+00bb>Y -Calculus
  • Continuous Domain Theory in Logical Form
  • Presheaf Models of Quantum Computation: An Outline
  • Nothing Can Be Fixed
  • Dialogue Categories and Frobenius Monoids
  • Anatomy of a Domain of Continuous Random Variables II
  • Towards Nominal Abramsky
  • Techniques for Formal Modelling and Analysis of Quantum Systems
  • Quantum Field Theory for Legspinners
  • Bicompletions of Distance Matrices
  • Partial Recursive Functions and Finality
  • Breaking the Atom with Samson
  • Reasoning about Strategies
  • Domain Theory in Topical Form
  • Kolmogorov Complexity of Categories.